A message in a bottle dating back 130 years (that was century XIX!!) was recently found by Rony Illman on a beach in Australia. The message was originally written by German sailors aboard the ship Paula as they sailed from Cardiff in Wales to Makassar in Indonesia, as part of an experiment studying the ocean currents. However, it is thought that the bottle actually arrived after "just" one year at sea, while spent most of the time buried in the sand. Hopefully they didn't expect quick results!